Water elevating and storage apparatus.



PATENTED JAN. 9, 1906.

W. W. DOUGLASS. WATER ELEVATING AND STORAGE APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9, 1904.

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WATER ELEVATING AND STORAGE APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9, 1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM W. DOUGLASS, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. WATER ELEVATING AND;STORAGE APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 9, 1906.

Application filed une 9, 1904. Serial No. 211,356.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,WILLIAM W.DOUGLASS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water Elevating andStorage Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to water elevating and storage apparatus; and myobject is to produce an efiicient and reliable apparatus of thischaracter, whereby water can be elevated to and stored at a great heightby the travel of an OX or other heavy animal on a revoluble platform.

With this general object in view and others of a tributary character, ashereinafter appear, the invention consists in certain novel and peculiarfeatures of construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafterdescribed and claimed, and in order that it may be fully understoodreference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1represents a top plan view of an apparatus embodying my invention. Fig.2

is anenlarged side elevation of part of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is an endview of the ap paratus on the scale of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a verticalsection taken on the line IV IV of Fig. 2, but with the traveling drumadvanced. Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line V V of Fig. 1, but on alarger scale. Fig. 6 is a section taken on the line VI VI of Fig. 1 onthe same scale as Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail sectional view showing oneof the water elevating buckets on a larger scale than Fig. 6. Fig. 8 isan enlarged section taken on the line VIII VIII of Fig. 2 Fig. 9 is anenlarged section taken on the line IX IX of Fig. 4. Fig. 10 is a sectionon the same scale as Fig. 9 of one of the hydraulic rams forming a partof the apparatus. Fig. 11 is a vertical section of one of theforce-pumps forming a part of the apparatus. Fig. 12 is an enlargedsection of a part of said pump, said figure also showing the piston insection. Fig. 13 is a view, partly in end elevation and partly invertical section, of a multiple-groove stationary drum, said figure alsoshowing in section the tracks upon which said drum travels. Fig. 14 is aview of said drum, partly in side elevation and partly in section, andalso shows in elevation said tracks. Fig. 15 is a section and Fig. '16an elevation of mechanism forming a part of the apparatus and locatedwithin the top of the tower of the same. Figs. 17 and 18 are sectionaland end views, respectively, of

.mechanism located'at the base of said tower. Fig; 19 is a horizontalsection of one of the to the lower side andconcentrically oftheplatform'is a circular friction-track 10, engaging the periphery of afriction-wheel 11, having its shaft journaled in a suitable framework12, erected, preferably, in a trench 13, said shaft terminating inoppositelyprojecting cranks 14, pivotally connected to the links 15 of apair of force-pumps 16, carried by said framework 12. The links (seeFig. 11) are pivoted to slides 17, mounted in guides 18 of saidframework, and the slides are secured to the stems 19 of pistons 20,operating in the cylinders of the pumps between supply-pipes 21 anddischarge-pipes 22, the latter leading to the box-valves 22", equippedwith weighted valves 22, which open under the water-pressure from thepumps, but close to prevent backflow from the box-valve to said pipes22, and leading from said box-valve to hydraulic rams, hereinafterdescribed, are pipes 22. Each piston is hollow and is provided with aseries of perforations 23 at its upper end and with a hinged flap-valve24, closing its lower end, said valve being adapted to open as thepiston rises, so as to permit water entering the cylinder through pipe21 to pass below the piston and to close as the piston descends, so asto force the water below it out through pipe 22.

To overcome the momentum of the revolving platform at the desired time,I provide a brake for engagement with friction-track 10, said brakecomprising a braced standard 25, vertically below the track and providedwith a vertical U-shaped guide 26, wherein is slidingly mounted with atongue-and-groove relation the brake-shoe 27, connected by links 28 29to the base of the standard, said links constituting a toggle, which isexpanded or braces to a higher plane than the frame are extension-posts35, connected at their inner sides by horizontal parallel bars 36,equipped with cross-ties 37 at their lower sides for the invertedtrack-rails 38, extending longitudinally of the machine. Similarcross-ties 39 are carried by longitudinal bars 33 and are equipped attheir upper sides with longitudinal track-rails 40, in verticalalinement with track-rails 38. A traveling drum engaging said trackwaysis constructed as follows: 41 designates a pair of side plates connectedat their front and rear sides by transverse blocks 42 and 43,respectively, said blocks being clamped against said plates by tie-bolts44. 45 is a transverse shaft journaled at its ends in said side platesand equipped with six grooved pulleys 46," arranged side by side, so asto conjointly form a multiple-groove drum, these pulleys being of courserigid on the shaft. At the front and rear corners of the drum arejournaled transverse shafts 47, carrying flanged wheels 48, engaging track-rails 40, and a shaft 49, j ournaled in the frame vertically aboveshaft 45, carries flanged wheels 50, engaging track-rails 38. Dependingfrom the side plates 41 rearward of shaft 45 are lugs 51, connected by across-rod 52, to which is secured the front end of a cable 53, saidcableleading back over a guide-pulley 54, supported from the stationaryframework and having a weight 55 attached to its lower end, said weightbeing adapted to move the traveling drum from the position shown indotted to the position shown in full lines,Fig. 2, for a purpose whichhereinafter appears.

Secured rigidly in the framework contiguous to guide-pulley 54 is amultiple-groove drum 56, which is preferably a duplicate of thetraveling drum, with the exception of the track-wheels of the latter,and said stationary drum is provided with an eyebolt 57 at its sidecontiguous to the traveling drum,

and secured to said eyebolt is one end of a cable 58, which cableextends upwardly over one of the end grooved wheels 46, around the sameto its under side, thence straight back to the corresponding groovedwheel of the stationary drum, up around the latter, and from its upperside to the upper side of the second wheel 46 of the traveling drum,this arrangement being continued until there are six loops in the cableconnecting said drums. From the end wheel of the stationary drumopposite to that first engaged by the cable the latter extends over andout of contact w th the traveling drum and engages the guide-pulley 59of the framework, and from the latter leads to a wheel, hereinafterdescribed.

Below the stationary and traveling drums the framework is equipped witha trussframe 60, embodying a central longitudinally-extending bar 61,and depending from the same are marginal angle-tracks 62 and a centraltrack 63. A vertically-movable trussframe 64 is located within theframework and below the truss-frame and embodies a centrallongitudinally-extending bar 65 at its lower side and a similar bar 66at its upper side, the last-named bar being provided withupwardly-projecting marginal angletracks 68 and a central track 69.

A lazy-tongs frame adapted to expand longitudinally toward the end ofthe framework contiguous to the weight comprises a series.

of links 70, pivotally mounted on shafts 71, the shafts being journaledin brackets 72, provided with a pair of rollers 73, the rollers of theupwardlyrojecting brackets engaging the angle-trac s 62, and the rollersof the depending brackets, the angle tracks 67. Said shafts are alsoequipped with grooved rollers 74, engaging track-rails 63, and engagingtrack-rails 69. The link 70 nearest weight 55 is pivotally connected, asat 76, to the framework, and the link at the opposite extremity of thelazy-tongs is connected to the branched ends 77 of the cable 78, whichextends around a pulley 79, journaled in a slot 80 of bar 61, and arounda guide-pulley 81 to the eyebolt 82, projecting from the traveling drum.

The vertically-movable truss-frame is secured rigidly upon the heads 83of the piston: stems 84 of a pair of hydraulic rams 85, mounted on sills31 of the framework, and the lower ends of said rams are connected tothe pipes 22, leading from the force-pumps,

1 hereinbefore described. Each ram is' also provided at its lower endwith an outwardlyprojecting tubular plug 86, (see Fig. 19,) containing arotary plug valve 87, equipped with an angular socket 88,'receiving oneof the squared ends of a horizontal shaft 89, extending longitudinallyof the framework, the connection being such that rotary movement of theshaft shall simultaneously open or close said valves. At an intermediatepoint a disk is rigidly mounted on the shaft, said disk having awrist-pin 91, pivotally connected by a link 92 with avertically-slidable weight 93, mounted in guides 94 on the contiguouspost 32 of the framework, hereinafter described. A cable 95 extends upfrom the weight over guide-pulleys 96, 97, and 98, carried by theframework, and over pulley 99, carried by a bracket 100, of a tower 101,the cable extending down from said pulley 99 to a lever 102, fulcrumedin a bearing 103, depending from said bracket.

The'tower 101 of full size will be approxi= mately one hundred andtwenty feet high and disposed over a water-supply, so that the water maybe raised a distance of about one hundred and twenty feet, ashereinafter more particularly referred to.

' The tower may be of the skeleton type shown or of any other suitableor preferred type, and journaled therein a short distance above thewater-line is a shaft 104, extending transversely of the truss-carryingframework and equipped with a pair of sprocketwheels 105, connected byendless sprocketchains 106 with a similar pair of wheels 107, secured ona similar shaft 108, journaled in the upper part of the tower, andconnecting said chains at suitable intervals are horizontal rods 109,from which buckets 110 are pivotally suspended, the buckets beingsuspended from the ends of the rods outward of the chains.

111 designates a lever fulcrumed for Vertical movement on a bracket 112,depending from the base of the tower in the vertical plane of thetruss-carrying frameworlg-oneend of the lever projecting almost into thevertical plane of the ascending side of the chains. Its opposite end isconnected to a cable 113, which extends down around a suitably-supported guide-pulley 114, thence upward and over aguide-pulley 115, thence horizontally and longitudinally of the truss-carryingframework to the beveled end bolt 116, mounted to slide longitudinallyin bracket 117, carried by a sill of said framework, a spring 118, uponthe'bolt and bearing at its opposite ends against the bracket and thecollar 119 on the bolt, serving to hold its beveled end in the path of atooth 120 of disk 90, so that when said disk makes aquarter of arevolution its tooth shall force the bolt back,

the latter springing forward to its original position immediately thetooth passes, so as to underlie the latter and prevent its oppositerotation until the bolt is withdrawn through the instrumentality of saidlever 111, as hereinafter explained, and in this connection it should bestated that rod 30, connected to the brake, is pivotally connected atits opposite end to the disk 90, so that with each rotatable movement ofthe disk in a certain direction said brake shall be forced intoengagement with the friction-track 10.

J ournaled in the upper end of the tower is a shaft 121, carrying agrooved pulley 122, over which the multiple-looped cable 58 extends fromthe stationary drum, the opposite end of the cable being attached to theupper end of a clutch 123. Said clutchis preferably bifurcated orslotted, as at 124, and provided at opposite sides of the bifurcationwith lugs 125, between which in the plane of thebifurcation is pivoted alever 1 26, having a rounded upper end 127 and a stepped lower end 128,

and a spring 129, secured to the clutch tends,

to hold the lever in the position shown in Fig. 15, with its stepped endengaging one of the upper corners of a hook 130, pivoted, as at 131, inthe bifurcation or slot 124, said hook when engaged by the lever beingadapted when moved upward to engage the proximate cross-rod of theconveyer or elevator composed of the chains andbuckets, as will bereadily understood by reference to Figs. 15 and 17.

At the proper time in the upward movement imparted to the clutch bycable 58, as hereinafter explained, the clutch enters the rigid frame132, carried by the tower, and the head 127 of the lever 126 engages therigid cam 133, said cam forcing the engaged end of lever toward the bodyof the clutch, so as to release the hook 130 and permit it to be swungto a vertical position, as in Fig. 17, and thus release theconveyer-rod, the hook being automatically relocked in its verticalposition by the engagement with its notch 134 of a lockinglever 135,said lever normally projecting into the path of the hook through opening136 under the pressure of spring 137, carried by the clutch, as shown inFig. 16. To guide the clutch in its vertical movement, it is provided atits opposite sides with apertured lugs 138, slidingly engaging ropes orcables 139, secured at their upper ends to an arm 140 of the tower andat their lower ends to an arm 141 of the bracket, on which lever 111 ispivoted, as shown in Fig. 5.

Suitably supported at the bottom of the tower vertically below frame 132is a frame 142, to receive the clutch when inits depressed position, asshown in Figs. 17 and 18. As the clutch passes through said frame one ofthe side arms of the latter engages and operates lever 135 and againstthe resistance of spring 137 withdraws its lower end from notch 134, soas to permit the hook to swing by gravity in the direction indicated bythe arrow, Fig. 17, to the position shown in Fig. 15, below theproximate cross-rod of the conveyer, it being also noticed that as saidhook was released the cam 143, carried by said frame 142, was enga ed bythe head 127 of lever 126 and forced tile stepped lower end of saidlever out of the path of the hook, so as to permit the latter to assumethe horizontal position referred to, in which position it is locked bythe lever 126 as soon as the latters head 127 moves upward a sufiicientdistance to clear cam 143, as will be readily under stood by referenceto Fig. 17. Just before the clutch attains the position shown in Fig. 15the engaged cross-rod of the conveyer successively strikes the bevelededges 144 of a series of catches 145, pivotally mounted on a rod 146,carried by a stationary frame 147 of the tower, said catches havingweighted arms 148 to hold them yieldingly in the path of the conveyercross-rods, a cross-pin 149 bein carried by frame 147 to limit thepivotad movement of said catches. As the conveyer cross-rod engaged bythe hook 130 clears the hook end of said catches the latter swing backunder it, and at the same time the head of lever 126 is engaged andoperated by cam 133 to effect the release of hook 130, so that as theupward movement of the clutch continues the resistance offered by saidconveyer-rod will cause it to rest upon the series of catches and offera resistance which swings the hook 130 to the position shown in Fig. 17,where it is automatically locked in such position by the spring actuatedlever 135. During this movement of the hook the collar 1.50 of cable 58is operating lever 102 and through the instrumentality of cable 95elevating the sliding weight 93 and imparting movement to disk 90, ashereinafter more particularly referred to. As the said conveyer-rod isreleased from the hook 130 the conveyer tends to rotate backward,because all of the ascending buckets are charged with water, and inorder to reduce the shock or jar incident to this change of support Iarrange the catches obliquely, as shown, this arrangement resulting inthe imposition of the weight on two of the catches, which pivotallyyield to permit the load to rest also upon a second pair of catches,said catches also yielding to distribute part of the strain on a thirdpair, and the latter yielding for the same purpose that afourth pair mayalso bear a part of the burden. By this successive interposition ofresistance to downward movement the shock is cushioned, as will bereadily understood.

It will be seen from the foregoing that the upward movement of theconveyer is intermittent and that it moves so only when the clutch istraveling upward, and it will be also understood that as the clutchmakes a move ment of substantially one hundred and twenty feet each ofsaid movements results in raising and emptying nearly one-half of thetotal number of conveyer-bucketsthat is to say, all of the filledbuckets in advance of the one whose cross-rod is engaged by the clutchare emptied.

Referring now more particularly to the bucket mechanism, it will be seenthat the buckets are pivotally suspended by arms 151 from conveyercrossrods and have openings 152 in their bottoms, which discharge intooutwardly-projecting spouts 153. The openings are controlled by hingevalves 154, equipped with angle-arms 155, which project over and beyondthe outer side Walls of the buckets and are provided with track-rollers156.

157 designates a pair of semicircular archtracks suitably supported fromthe tower at the outer sides of the buckets and terminating at theirends in downwardly-diverging cam portions 158, interposed in the path ofthe rollers 156 of all of the buckets charged with water, so that saidrollers as they suc cessively come in contact with said cam portionsshall be forced back, as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 7, and thevalves raised, the water escaping through the openings in the spouts,from which it is discharged into the storage-tanks 159, suitablysupported in the tower in a plane below that which the bucketssuccessively occupy when their valves are opened, and connected to oneof said tanks is pipe 1.60, coupled at its opposite end to forcepumpsupply-pipes 21, as shown in Fig. 1.

Before proceeding with the detailed description of the 'entire operationof the apparatus, it should be stated that the rams are adapted to raisethe movable frame eighteen inches, that the elevation of said frame increases the length of the lazy-tongs frame ten feet, and consequentlymoves the traveling drum the same distance, such movement of said drum,because of the multiple-loop connection with the stationary drum,raising the clutch a distance of one hundred and twenty feet, the clutchin turn imparting a one-hundred-and-twenty-foot movement to the conveyer. The parts are so proportioned that a single ox walking on therevolving platform or tread-mill for two and one-half minutes isinstrumental in raising one ton of Water one hundred and twenty feethigh, Where it has a force of thirty tons hydraulic.

The general operation is as follows: The ox walking upon the revolvingplatform rotates the same and through the instrumentality of the gearingdescribed operates the forcepumps and pumps water from one of the tanks159, through pipes 160, 21, and 22,boxvalves 22, and plpes 22 to thehydraulic rams and forces the pistons thereof upward to raise themovable truss-frame and effect the expansion of the lazy-tongs frame,said frame operating with a minimum of friction, because its rollerstravel upon tracks 62, 63, 68, and 69. The expansion of the lazy-tongsframe through the medium of cable 78 draws the traveling drum from theposition shown in full to the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2,which action elevates weight 55 and lengthens the multiple loop betweensaid drum and the stationary drum, and therefore raises the clutch adistance equal to that between the shafts 104 and 108 of the endlessconveyer, and the connection hereinb efore described between the clutchand one of the cross-rods of the conveyer imparts movement to the latterand discharges approximately one ton of Water into the tanks 159, thetanks receiving the Water from the proximate series of buckets, as willbe readily understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 4, all of this beingaccomplished withina two and one-half minute travel of the ox. As suchtravel is about completed the clutch, as hereinb efore explained,operates lever 102 and raises throu h the instrumentality of cable 95the Wei it 93, which movement of the weight resu ts in turning disk 90 aquarter of a revolution and looking it against back move ment by theengagement of its tooth 120 with the spring-actuated bolt 116, ashereinbefore explained. Said rotary movement of the disk at the sametime sets the brake against the traveling platform to arrest momentum ofthe same t rough the medium of rod or pitman 30 and the toggle, composedof links 28 and 29, (see Fig. 3,) and likewise through the rotation ofshaft 89 opens the valves of the hydraulic rams to permit the watertherein to escape, backflow in pipes 22 being prevented by thebox-valve, as will be readily understood. 'At the instant said valvesopen the movable truss-frame begins to descend, and because of itsflanged track connection with the lazy-tongs fi'ame contracts thelatter, and therefore relieves the tension of cable 7 8 and permits theweight 55 to likewise gravitate and draw the traveliug drum back towardthe stationary drum. This action results in the contraction of themultiple-loop connection between said drums, and therefore in thedescent of the clutch to its original position. As the various partsattain their original positions said clutch strikes and operates lever l1 1 and causes cable 113, connected thereto, to withdraw thespring-actuated bolt 116 from the path of the disktooth, which action isfollowed by the gravitative action of the slidableweight 93 and theconseciuent back rotation of the disk to its origina position and thereclosure of the valves of the rams, and throu h the medium of the rodor pitman 30 the re ease of the brake. The

ox is again started to effect arepetition of the operations described.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced awater elevating and storage apparatus embodying the features ofadvantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of invention, andwhile I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of thesame, it is obvious that it is susceptible of various changes in itsform, proportion, detailconstruction, and arrangement of the partswithout departing from the principle of construction involved orsacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of awater-elevating mechanism, a cable to effect the operation of saidmechanism, a suitable framework, a stationary drum therein to which isrigidly securedsaid cable, and a drum movable to- Ward and from thestationary drum and engaged by a loop in said cable.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of awater-elevating said mechanism,-a suitable framework, a stationary drumtherein to which is rigidly secured said cable, a drum.movable towardand from the stationary drum and engaged by a loop in said cable, meansfor effecting the travel of said movable drum from the stationary drum,and means for moving the movable drum toward the stationary drum.

4. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of awater-elevating mechanism, a cable to effect the operation of saidmechanism, a suitable framework, a stationary drum therein to which isrigidly secured said cable, a drum movable toward and from thestationary drum and engaged by a loop in said cable, and an. expansiveframe connected to the movable drum and adapted when expanding to movesaid drum away from the stationary drum.

5. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of awater-elevating mechanism, a cable to effect the operation of saidmechanism, a suitableframework, a stationary drum to which is rigidlysecured said cable, a drum movable toward and from the stationary drumand engaged by a loop in said cable, an expansive frame connected to themovable drum and adapted when expanding to move said drum away from thestationary drum, and means for yieldingly impelling the movable drumtoward the stationary drum after the expansion of said frame hasoccurred.

6. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of awater-elevating mechanism, a cable to effect the operation of saidmechanism, a suitable framework, a stationary drum to which is rigidlysecured said cable, a drum movable toward and from the stationary drumand engaged by a loop in said cable, an expansive frame having one endfixed and the other movable, and a suitably-guided cable connected tothe movable end of the expansive frame and to said mov able drum.

7. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of awater-elevating mechanism, a cable to effect the operation of saidmechanism, a suitable framework, a stationary drum to which is rigidlysecured said cable, a drum movable toward and from the stationary drumand engaged by a loop in said cable, an expansive frame having one endfixed and the other movable, a suitably- ICO guided cable connected tothe movable end of the expansive frame and to said movable drum, one ormore hydraulic jacks for effecting the expansion of said frame, andmeans for discharging the water from said jack or jacks to permit saidframe to contract.

8. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of awater-elevating mechanism, a framework, a stationary frame therein, avertically-movable frame therein, a lazy-tongs frame secured at one endto the framework, and arranged between the superposed movable andstationary frames, a stationary drum in said framework, a drum to traveltoward and from said stationary drum, a cable secured at one end to thestationary drum and looped around the same and the movable drum andextending from the stationary drum and connected at its opposite end tothe water-elevating mechanism to op- --erate the same, means for drawingthe movable drum yieldingly toward the stationary drum, asuitably-guided cable connecting the movable drum and the free end ofthe lazytongs frame, one or more valve-controlled hydraulic ramssupporting the movable frame, a force-pump having acheck-valvecontrolled pipe connection with said ram or rams, avertically-slidable weight on the framework, a disk connected to openand close the valve of each ram, a link connecting the disk and slidableweight, a spring-actuated bolt to lock the disk against back rotationwhen the weight is raised, means operated by the water-elevatingmechanism to raise said weight and open the ram-valve when thevertically-movable frame is elevated, and means also actuated by theoperation of the waterelevating mechanism for unlocking the bolt fromsaid disk to permit the weight to descend.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM W. DOUGLASS.

Witnesses GEO. S. SAYLOR, MARGARET SMITH.

